The Last Dance

My oldest daughter Megan is at her Senior Prom today. I never imagined this day ever arriving and yet in a blink of an eye, here it is. 

Doesnt she just look simply beautiful. I love her plan for the ring of flowers. We bought the flowers on Etsy and she made it herself. It made me kind of giggle when it was done and she tried it on. It felt like the little fairy princess Megan of 5 years old had never really left and the world had come full circle.

 A humongous thank you to Grandma for buying her dream dress and Alyssa for lending her the most perfect shoes to go with the dress. I hope she has a wonderful night and Im sure she will be very sleepy with lots of stories to tell tomorrow.

Its Spring?

 There is a bit of Spring in my kitchen right now. Some lovely red Tulips that are waiting to be planted outside.

But this is what it looks like right now, so the Tulips and our dreams of starting our garden will have to wait. Oh how I wish this view was filled with sunshine, green grass and pretty flowers.

Fancy Socks Galore

I recently got an order on Knitted For Ewe for some custom made socks. The customer picked the pattern and sent me yarn from their stash and I got set to work. I had never really made socks with this much detail but checked out the patterns and had confidence that I could do them. These socks were so much fun to make. They were challenging, kept my mind ticking and made me so proud to see the end result. I learned new techniques such as chart reading and knitting a cable pattern into the heel. I am so proud of the results I thought I would share them here. The socks in the first picture are called Cadence and you can find them for free on www.Knitty.com. I love shade of blue the customer picked for these. These socks are my kind of pattern. They look really technical and difficult but are actually really easy. The pattern was so easy to follow.

These next socks are called Marilinda. This pattern was designed by Cookie A. It can be purchased via Ravelry. This was another pattern that looks really difficult but turned out to be pretty easy. These socks have the cable going all the way down into the heel. Very pretty and surprisingly simple to do. 

These last pair socks were my challenging pair. The pattern is called Lohengrin and was designed for free by Caoua Coffee. You can also this pattern on Ravelry. This is quite the cable pattern where every line is different and you are switching around one stitch at a time, knitting into the back of the stitch and remembering which cable stitch is which symbol. I feel very accomplished and proud that I made it through these. They took alot of concentration and look really cool once you finish them. 

I feel ready for any sock pattern that I attempt and know that I just have to take my time and I will figure things out and if I ever get stuck there are some wonderful knitters on Ravelry who will help you through anything you are stuck on.
 

So Adorable And Funny!

We have been giving our house a much needed clean out in the past month. My girls have decided that they want to switch bedrooms so they had to clean out their rooms if they wanted to make the big switch. Megan to the small room downstairs and Victoria to the big loft room upstairs. 

In our cleaning out of things we have been strolling down memory lane as you do when you start going through things that have been buried in boxes for a long time. 
We found a letter that Megan made for Santa when she was 8 that was still sealed so of course we had to open it. Oh and what giggles we had. 
I am going to share it with you with all her spelling glory with it hehe.

Dear Santa Claus,
Joe is already puting up the tree. I turned eight this year. The most thing I 
want for Christmas is rolling runners. These are the other thing I want a life
size choclate moose and a city of all sorts of Barbie dolls and last but not least
a flying unicorn any age.
I Love You Very Much
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
You'rs truly,
Megan Brown
p.s. Nail polish and Nail Polish remover and clothes

I am definitely saving this letter hehe. I dont remember what she got that year for Christmas but I dont think she got most of it. My Megan is turning 18 next month and the funny thing is she would probably still want the life size chocolate mousse, whatever that is hehe as long as its something chocolate and the nail polish and clothes are still being asked for. So even though your kids grow and change they are still pretty much the same.

I hope you had a little giggle with this post. I think my favourite part is the flying unicorn any age hehehehehehe.

 

New York Buddies

I just sent off a new batch of toys to Stoopher & Boots in New York city. I usually like to send at least 7 things at a time but I have been working on socks, socks, socks that I havent had time to do too many toys. This is quite the crew isnt it. 

I knitted this bunny once before in a chenille yarn that made him look like a velveteen rabbit. This bunny was knitted from a yarn called Bunny Soft. How could you not knit a bunny out of it? Victoria picked the colours. Of course she would pick blue as she is in love with blue. This yarn is so soft. My girls couldnt stop hugging him when he was all finished. I found out that once he arrived in New York yesterday and friend of Stoopher & Boots had to blog about him so now he is famous. Here is a link to the article which is so cute.
 http://stickyegg.com/2012/06/11/tall-tail/

Look at that poofy tail, so soft and fluffy like a real bunny. For the lining of the ears I used felt. The last one of these bunnies I used fabric. I think I much prefer the fabric as even those the ears in this picture are tamed and down once you start playing with him they tend to fold back and make him look as if he was stuck in a wind tunnel. Still cute but a little too stiff for my liking. Oh and this pattern was designed by one of my new favourite designers, Rabbit Hole Knits. I just love every one of her patterns.

This bunny is another Rabbit Hole Knits designs. The amazing thing about this pattern is that this is pretty much all one piece. You just add the ears and the front paws. For this bunny I got a smooth yarn and a fluffy super soft yarn and held it together throughout. When I picked a needle size I went really small so this is a very strong, stable fabric. What is even better is the eyes are embroidered on so that he is safe for everyone. A funny story about this bunny is, the little 2 year old girl that I babysit wanted to hold him and when I gave him to her she was holding him like a real bunny. She put him on the ground and was waiting for him to start hopping. She very much thought he was real. 

Dont you just love his little tail. I just love how he is knit all in one including his little tail.

Here is another super cute monster designed by Danger Crafts another favourite designer. I have knit this monster before in pink. Its funny how these little critters can look so different just by changing the yarn. This one was made in a colourful baby yarn which makes him super soft. It was interesting to see how the striping changed once I got to the body. 

Last but not least is this little dinosaur. You dont really see to many pink dinosaurs around but I knew I just had to make one after Victoria and I read a super cute story that had this pink dinosaur all through it. He also has embroidered eyes which makes him safer and is just the right size for little hands. You never know, there could have been real pink dinosaurs.
 

Prom 2012

My Megan just had her prom on Saturday so I just had to show off the prettiness of it all.

Megan and her friend Ali decided to ask a boy that was a friend of theirs if he would be their date. So he was a lucky guy with two dates to the prom. He didnt care what he wore so the girls delighted in being able to pick out his outfit. They were quite proud of the results.

Here is my Meggy all pretty and stuff. 

I wish I could have got her shoes in one of these pictures. They were hot pink patent leather shoes with 4 1/2 inch heels. She was enjoying towering over me. 

If only she would have let me take a picture of what she looked like the next day when she same home. It would have been priceless hehe. Lets just say the hair wasnt so pretty, the makeup was smudgy, some being used as a strange headband and a giant fake Michael Jackson tattoo on her leg. 

Here are the girls all together. What angels hehe.

Megan loves this picture. It just captures their personalities so well I think hehe.
 

Sparkle Horse

I just listed this Sparkly Horse in my Etsy shop today. This horse reminds me of my Megan when she was little. Its pink, its sparkly, its a horse. All things that would have made her want to snatch it up and call it hers. 

I just know there are other little girls out there that are just like my Megan who would love a sparkly little horse. 

I contemplated turning her into a little unicorn but she was happy just how she is. 

When deciding on the eyes I remembered when I was little and use to colour in all the eyes blue. I even went through a whole colouring book just colouring all the eyes in blue in every picture. I dont know what the fascination was but felt like this little horse needed blue eyes just like the old days.